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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. ObjectBox vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. ObjectBox vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerobjectbox.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.objectbox.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperGoogleObjectBox LimitedMireoAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2017201720202008
Current release5.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linuxserver-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.online/offline synchronization between client and serverReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesyesno
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